The U.S. Department of Transportation has introduced new federal grant programs aimed at enhancing traffic safety, easing congestion, and improving accessibility nationwide. These funding initiatives offer the potential [...]
SamTrans, a public transportation agency in the San Francisco Bay Area, received the Outstanding Public Transportation System Achievement award from the American Public Transportation Association (APTA) for its [...]
MAX transit was one of four nationwide organizations to receive the 2024 Outstanding Public Transit System Award by the American Public Transportation Association (APTA) – and its component [...]
With the increase in the number of ITS-specific requirements in transit and traffic projects over the past 10 to 15 years, there's also been an increase in... [...]
Transit Signal Priority systems are installed in cities throughout North America—in an extremely wide range of... [...]
It's crucial for traffic departments to have the ability to deliver smart-city services through an accessible and secure... [...]
With the remarkable shift to cloud computing during the past decade, it’s nearly impossible to identify real-time technologies that don’t utilize the cloud to least some degree. However, [...]
The Federal Communications Commission recently answered a question that impacts US-based traffic, first response, and transit agencies: Which of the proposed communications methods will be adopted to serve [...]
Fairfax County, Virginia is currently testing the first driverless public transportation vehicles in the Washington DC region. The 100-percent electric vehicles are also equipped with EMTRAC Transit Signal [...]
When city managers explore implementing, or improving, signal priority for transit and first-response vehicles, rarely is it for low-congestion corridors. In most cases, the streets equipped with Transit [...]
One of the key benefits of an intelligent traffic system is the ability for cities to maintain complete awareness of their system’s state of readiness. What are the [...]
There are over 530,000 people who live in the Region of Waterloo, Ontario, and the Region includes prestigious universities, innovative businesses, and thriving urban centers—all connected by a [...]
The Augusta Fire Department in Georgia will soon have emergency response vehicles equipped with the EMTRAC signal-priority system. Vehicles equipped with the EMTRAC system are able to automatically [...]
The EMTRAC Vehicle Computer Unit (VCU), which facilitates a wide range of vehicle-to-infrastructure communications, has received E-Mark certification. As such, the EMTRAC system is available for full installation [...]
South Portland, Maine recently installed the EMTRAC system to provide Transit Signal Priority (TSP) for their South Portland Bus Service. As a part of the TSP implementation project, [...]
Between April 6 and April 7 of this year, there will be a GPS Week Number Rollover event, which could impact some GPS positioning and timing systems. This [...]
EMTRAC Systems has partnered with Columbia County Traffic Engineering to design and implement a mobile application for small vehicles (such as bicycles and motorcycles). The mobile app is [...]
STC, Inc., manufacturer of the EMTRAC signal-priority system, has integrated the Galileo satellite navigation system with EMTRAC equipment installed in transit and emergency vehicles. Similar to the GPS [...]
STC, Inc has been issued a U.S. patent for its EMTRAC Rail Worker Notification system, which notifies railway maintenance workers of approaching trains, as well as notifying train [...]
The EMTRAC System was initially developed in 1986 to enable first response vehicles to request priority through signalized intersections, and fire departments have used the EMTRAC system since [...]
EMTRAC has a new user in the City of Kennewick, WA, and their recently installed system demonstrates the compatibility of EMTRAC optical equipment with legacy optical emitters made [...]
Increased safety is an important part of the what the EMTRAC priority management system provides. At a basic level, a higher level of safety is achieved by detecting [...]
Traffic departments have become far too familiar with spending exhaustive amounts of money on equipment and untold labor hours—all with negative results for accurately detecting bicycles. The EMTRAC [...]
EMTRAC Systems is proud to announce the appointment of NWS Traffic, a Signal Group company, as our distributor in the following US states: Idaho, Colorado, Utah, Arizona, Texas, [...]
The new Apple campus, under construction in Cupertino, California, will be a four-story circular building that is planned to house over 12,000 employees, with a footprint that is [...]
The EMTRAC sales staff has been on a whirlwind tour this year, attending trade shows throughout North America and visiting current and future customers from Canada to Mexico. [...]
Representatives of the EMTRAC system attended the APTA 2014 Rail Conference, which took place June 15-18 in Montréal. EMTRAC personnel were joined by representatives of ACT Traffic Solutions, [...]
We have posted a new video describing the EMTRAC Rail-Worker Safety system, which has passed acceptance testing conducted by Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA). Click the following [...]
During the past four years, we have enhanced the EMTRAC system to increase safety for transit-rail workers, as well as passengers and pedestrians. We’ve worked closely with Santa [...]
The core function of the EMTRAC system is to help reduce response times for first responders by enabling their vehicles to automatically request priority through upcoming intersections. However, [...]
At it’s core, the EMTRAC system is about enabling agency vehicles to request signal priority through equipped intersections. However, EMTRAC customers throughout North America have found other ways [...]
Traffic engineers from the Northern California region were able to watch demonstrations of the recently released EMTRAC optical Priority Detectors at the ITS trade show in Lodi, California [...]
The very purpose of Emergency Vehicle Preemption (EVP) is to lower response times by requesting signal priority for equipped vehicles. However, the potential for collisions involving first-response vehicles [...]
The Columbia County Fire Department, which serves a portion of the Augusta, Georgia metropolitan area, has recently installed the EMTRAC system on many of their fire vehicles, with [...]
KM Enterprises (dba “EMTRAC Systems”) filed an antitrust complaint against Global Traffic Technologies (GTT) on March 23, 2012 in United States District Court for the Southern District of [...]
A new white paper is available, which describes some of the specific ways our customers have implemented the EMTRAC system to improve safety and timeliness for their transit [...]
The March/April 2011 IMSA Ontario newsletter highlighted the new Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) service that is currently being expanded in Brampton, Ontario. This advanced BRT service was carefully [...]
The Florida Department of Transportation has approved the EMTRAC Priority Management system components for inclusion on their Approved Product List (APL). As a part of this process, the [...]
s part of a third party installation acceptance test for VTA of San Jose, California in July of 2010, Caltrans was asked to verify compliance of the installation [...]
As first-response and transit agencies throughout North America have discovered, there are many benefits that can be realized by the use of EVP/TSP technology. Click the following link [...]
On February 22, EMTRAC’s own Jim Jarzab summarized the current state of BRT practices during his opening remarks at the Urban Transport World conference in Sydney, Australia. As [...]
Based in Santa Clara, the Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) serves the transit needs of six municipalities. Their bus and light-rail lines have seen significant increases in ridership each [...]
Firefighters in Coquitlam are using advanced technology to get to emergencies faster. On Monday, Coquitlam council watched a live demonstration via web cam of the fire department’s new [...]
SamTrans, a public transportation agency in the San Francisco Bay [...]
MAX transit was one of four nationwide organizations to receive [...]
With the increase in the number of ITS-specific requirements in [...]
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